Yesterday was the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. I was caught up in the fairy tale, but as the news replayed the day over and over again, I was struck by the overwhelming respect that everyone displayed. From a crowd of over 1 million, not one incident was reported. We in the US can hardly manage a Friday night High School football game without some sort of drama. I'm thinking, there is a real deficit in the US, and I don't mean in the budget. We lack respect, self respect, respect for authority, respect for other...it's quite sad really. It must sadden God too...
When you don't have self respect, how can you treat others with respect? How can you expect children who have not been taught respect to have it when they get to school? Yes, we do have some major problems in this county of excess....we are poor...poor role models, poor stewards of what we've been given and we have poor attitudes, so are we really a rich nation? In all the ways that count, we are poor, very poor. Maybe we don't know everything, maybe there's something to be said for tradition and protocol. Maybe we are not a nation of one. maybe we are the "greatest" nation on earth, but the greatest at what? Do we really want to be the greatest at disrespect? Just something to think about.....as for me in my little corner of the world, I think I'll have some tea and scones and try to recapture some of the pomp and circumstance of yesterday's wedding....
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